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So, what does everyone (anyone?) think of this? Have only just listened to it this month and I gather it's considered Not Exactly A Classic by their standards, but there's something oddly addictive about it... that is, I feel like I'm so used to Kraftwerk records being so seamlessly, effortlessly good that the very fact this one feels like it's gone a bit, ah, pear shaped, makes it all the more intriguing.

is that, in the year or so after it was released, pretty much every electronic band tried to ape its sound - Depeche Mode (Strangelove), PSBs (Shopping), New Order (True Faith) to name but 3. It's not their best album but to paraphrase Woody Allen, even bad Kraftwerk is good.